Worldlines

A seal: Thick oily wetsuit grey skin, fin-footed, four flippers, streamlined large body, gracious in water, heavy on land, heaps and humps along its belly, no ears, just holes, teary black eyes, single continuous body. What is the precise alchemical formula that makes a semi-aquatic animal a seal and also “real”? Does this image birthed by technological alchemy make a semi-aquatic animal a seal and also "virtual real"?

Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Agave 290 gsm.
25 ½ x 30.5 cm / 10 x 12 in.
5 AP, edition of 15.

LJM.WL.01